Public Records

Steven Craig Benningfield of 720 Philpott Road in Campbellsville was found guilty of second-degree criminal mischief after damaging property at the Scott’s Ridge lookout near Raywick. He was arrested on July 29 in Taylor County. He was sentenced to 60 days, probated for 24 months. He was ordered to have no contact with Scott’s Ridge, pay restitution, complete 20 hours of community service and pay $133 in court costs.

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Curtis Bennett, former Marion County High School teacher and band director, will be spending the next six years in prison after pleading guilty to sex offenses involving female students.
Bennett was sentenced Thursday morning in Marion Circuit Court before Marion Circuit Judge Todd Spalding. His sentence also requires him to register as a lifetime sex offender, complete sex offender treatment and pay $160 in court costs.
Bennett was first arrested on Jan. 6, 2016, after an investigation found evidence of inappropriate activity between Bennett and a female student.

Steven Craig Benningfield, 23, of Campbellsville was arrested on July 29 in Taylor County for second-degree criminal mischief. His arrest resulted from an investigation into a June 21 incident in which Benningfield is accused of unlawfully damaging property at the Scott’s Ridge Road lookout near Raywick. Benningfield was lodged in the Taylor County Detention Center with bail set at $2,500.

Elizabeth Isabele, 35, of 960 Bradfordsville Road in Lebanon was indicted for first-degree burglary, defacing a firearm, and possession of a defaced firearm in Marion Circuit Court recently. According to the indictment, on or about Nov. 18, 2015, Isabele knowingly entered or remained unlawfully in a building with intent to commit a crime, intentionally defaced a firearm or aided, abetted or counseled with another in said act, and was found to be in possession of a defaced firearm. Her bond was set at $20,000, and she was ordered to have no contact with the victim or premises.

A Raywick teenager was indicted for sodomy, sex abuse and rape in Marion Circuit Court on July 31.
Charles E. Spurlock III, 19, of 795 Clell Mattingly Road in Raywick was indicted for two counts of first-degree sodomy, first-degree sex abuse, two counts of first-degree unlawful transaction with a minor, first-degree criminal attempt to commit sodomy, and first-degree rape.

Andrew Lanham of Lanham Road in Gravel Switch was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of first-degree robbery and theft of an automobile.
In October of last year, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office arrested Lanham in connection with a robbery that occurred Oct. 6, at US Bank in Loretto.
Lanham stole a car at TGKY in Lebanon the morning before the robbery. He was an employee at TGKY at the time. The stolen car was recovered on George Beaven Road in Loretto.

One of two teenagers believed to be responsible for a string of vehicle thefts was indicted in Marion Circuit Court July 31.
John S. Melger, 18, of Lebanon was arrested in June after the Marion County Sheriff’s Office found evidence that connected him, and a 16-year-old male, whose name hasn’t been released, to several crimes.
According to the indictment, Melger, 18 of 140 Rosenwald Village was indicted for theft by unlawful taking over $10,000 (auto), first-degree criminal mischief and third-degree arson.